Management of strategic change at the high court of Kenya

Abstract

The world today is going through massive change and this is indicated by organizations redesigning, restructuring, merging and doing layoffs. As a result of these changes, strategic change management has become increasingly of interest to the management, need for organizations to have a competitive edge and reposition themselves. To satisfy these objective data was collected from the senior management employees of the judiciary of Kenya who were targeted as the principal respondents. A self administered questionnaire was used as major tool of data collection. Descriptive research design was preferred for the presentation of findings. In this case data was evaluated and presented in form of textual/content analysis. From the findings the researcher learnt some of the management of strategic change practices adopted includes change of leadership, change of structure, training of employees and change of programs. Some of the challenges of managing strategic change included resistance from the employees, resource constraints and skill gaps